Sports
Sports
Fences, Beware!
July 5th, 2012
Denny Crine, a physical education and health teacher at Mannion Middle School, is competing against the 1988 American League MVP in the “Battle of the Titans” on July 11 at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif. The event will benefit the ALS Association’s Golden West Chapter. Read more »
About Town
Soccertown, USA
Can Las Vegas become a hotbed for the global game?
June 7th, 2012
When 13-year-old Hayden Canizalez walked off the field at Bettye Wilson Soccer Complex on May 27, it may have been his farewell to Southern Nevada’s soccer scene. Read more »
Sports
The Dream Chasers
June 7th, 2012
The nearly 100 banners lining the walls of the Impact Basketball Academy on Sunset Road speak for themselves. On each is a last name and a number representing an NBA success story that Impact owner Joe Abunassar and his staff helped write. Read more »
Seven Questions
Frank Mir
The former UFC champ on his upcoming title bout, his gruesome motorcycle accident and his passion for guns
May 24th, 2012
Fighting has always been in Frank Mir’s blood. The Las Vegas native and two-time UFC heavyweight champ—who faces current champ Junior dos Santos in the main event of UFC 146 on May 26 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena—received his introduction to martial arts via his father, Frank Sr., at his dad’s Kenpo Karate studio in the 1980s. His combat learning curve accelerated at Bonanza High School, and things came almost as easy to Mir after he joined the homegrown UFC. Read more »
Sports
The Recruit
The race for Findlay Prep basketball star Anthony Bennett is on—and UNLV aims to win it
April 26th, 2012
If there’s one thing guaranteed to make high school basketball star Anthony Bennett smile, it’s the thought that his exhausting college recruiting process will soon end. Read more »
Sports
Keeping Their Heads in the Game
April 12th, 2012
As a member of UNLV’s training staff since 1984 and director of athletic training since 1999, Kyle Wilson has seen enough to know that “killing the head” is serious business—and that prevention and quick diagnosis of concussions are among the most important issues in sports medicine today. Wilson and his staff now perform cognitive and balance tests on UNLV’s nearly 500 student-athletes before each team’s season so that if one of them suffers a head injury, trainers can determine the severity of it. Read more »
Found Material
Coaches Answer Social Call
BeamingBohemian.com
March 8th, 2012
College athletic coaches have different ways of handling their players’ social-media activity. Read more »
Events
Tackling a Larger Audience
January 26th, 2012
The Lingerie Football League is putting on the moves this year in an attempt to gain greater exposure in Las Vegas and around the world. Lingerie Bowl IX will kick off at the Orleans Arena at 1 p.m. Feb. 5, more than two hours before the Super Bowl, and be televised on MTV2. Read more »
Sports
High Court Appeal
January 19th, 2012
Of all the happenings that bring Las Vegas national attention, a high school basketball game would seem to be one of the unlikeliest. Yet since last season’s thriller, this year’s showdown between Findlay Prep and Bishop Gorman has been highly anticipated by prep sports pundits across the country. Last January’s matchup between the teams produced the greatest high school basketball game in Nevada’s history, when Findlay Prep won 89-86 on a last-second 3-pointer in double overtime. Read more »
Sports
Fighting Spirit
January 5th, 2012
UFC champions Junior dos Santos and Dominick Cruz, heavyweight Travis Browne and Las Vegas fighters Frank Mir and Roy Nelson spent the afternoon of Dec. 27 hanging out with nearly a dozen local youngsters who are battling cancer. The fighters and kids shared lunch in the Ultimate Fighter gym before spending a little time hitting heavy bags and learning a few MMA techniques—although the majority of the afternoon saw dos Santos and Browne on the constant defensive as the energetic group of young attackers proved to be worthy opponents. Read more »
